Breaking Through, Travelling On

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I did manage to go to the supermarket this morning, but it really wiped me out, which is why I'm on here late-for-me. Still, got what I wanted, including a battery for the smoke alarm and some bulbs for the kitchen light, which decided to go-slow last week.

Right now, hmmm, I think I might do more strawberry clearing - the worms have had time to get safe from my trowel (another reason I don't do too much at once!). And if the threatening rain starts up, I can grab the washing quickly and run inside, a classic activity from my childhood :rotfl:

That's a point, we'll need to change the batteries in the smoke alarm next month - it's just gone in my diary.


Hope the strawberry clearing is going well

Karmacat

:hello: beanie - I think of myself as doing a "dance like an Egyptian" I don't, of course, it really is more of a plod, but the thought is there.

Goldie - glad to be of service as I increasingly get my act together in my current lurgy-freedom, I tested it and found it wanting.

Very exciting weeding in the garden, believe it or not :rotfl: several bits of present day weeding have joined up, so there's a yard or so square thats free of weeds - had some partially decomposed leaf mould, which I put over it then. And even previous efforts have made a difference - a lot of the dratted strawberries were growing in the bark chippings I'd previously laid, so not too difficult to pull up Shattered now, but in a good way :j

Karmacat

I've had lots and lots of rest today, but still managed to do a few things off my still-to-be-posted list:
- the batteries and the light were an item on the list.
- the frozen veg I bought were another :o:o
PLUS this is the full ta-da list so far :
- sent pdf links to a friend - had to find them all again, which took a while!
- collected JL dress (still not tried it on, oops).
- chunk of recycling that had bee sitting under my bed was briefly in the recycling bin, and is now in the recycling lorry :j
- opened my post - I'm getting a bit lax with this, I do the Tim Ferriss thing and leave it, but its starting to be left for a week or so, and it *really* adds up Had to do it now, to update a credit card.
- because I bought the 3 Amazon gift cards I've arranged to buy in consultation with my sister
- found the presents for my brother and his wife that I never sent - couldn't cope with post offices and whatnot till about March, and it felt silly by then. So there they are ...

A few points on that still need work, but the main stuff is done :j That's eight points of 32! The weeding and the backdoor gloryhole are on the list, but no way I'm counting those as done :rotfl:

Very chuffed with that! Time to stop now

Hollyboll

Hello KC :hello:

Blimey, going awol for a few days is a risky business on your diary - it moves so fast there are pages to go through :rotfl:

Vereeee sorry about the weebuy - I'd have sent you the code had I realised it wasn't on web. Glad RT came to the rescue. Well done for getting them out :T

Loving the shoe chat … have you ever looked at arche shoes? NOT cheap - I'd get on fleabay or in a sale - but incredibly comfortable even for dodgerama feet, of which I've over the years had various (that's left or right or both, rather than several different feet like an octopus) - they were first recommended to me by a podiatric surgeon. Some look not unlike those lovely hotter pink ones posted above …

Ellidee's William James quote is FAB. I've written it on a bit of paper to put on my wall

The idea of doing short bursts of gardening is a great one … I need to try and apply this to flat sortage. Maybe tomorrow …

Yay for ta-da list:j:j:j

Does the strawberry clearing yield the odd strawberry? ...

earthgirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Very exciting weeding in the garden

Oh dear, I read this as "very exciting wedding in the garden", Ooops!

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Karmacat wrote: »

- opened my post - I'm getting a bit lax with this, I do the Tim Ferriss thing and leave it

Sorry, I'm missing something here:o. What's the Tim Ferris thing, please?


I love this diary but it's so true what Hollyboll said. Miss a few days and there's soooo much to catch up on:rotfl:.


KC, I salute your determination and persistence:beer:. You may not always think you get much done but sometimes it makes me tired to read your tada lists and I don't even have any health and energy issues:o


Love the shoe-talk, even with my aversion to buying any because of my awkward and ugly feet. I used to have some a bit like those Hotter ones when I was working and had a social life;). They weren't exactly the same but had that sort of bow on the front. They were from M&S of all places but their shoes always seemed to fit me without too much breaking-in:j. They were navy blue leather and received many compliments. I tried the colour-change thingy on the page with your Hotter shoes on( it doesn't take much to entertain me, maybe I should get out more;)) and absolutely fell in love with the gold ones, although they actually look silver onscreen;). Gold shoes with bows on....my dream:o

smallholdingsister

Have you bought shoes yet?

Karmacat

Hi all!

SHS, no, I haven't bought any shoes yet - I need a while to digest the look of the dresses first, I was in a bit of a rush

Hollyboll wrote: »

Hello KC :hello:

Blimey, going awol for a few days is a risky business on your diary - it moves so fast there are pages to go through :rotfl:

Oops! And thats what CBC said too, down the page a bit

Vereeee sorry about the weebuy - I'd have sent you the code had I realised it wasn't on web. Glad RT came to the rescue. Well done for getting them out :T

Not your fault, honey! I didn't try to get back to you, remember. They've paid me now, anyway, and I used the right sale, so I got the 20% extra :j

Loving the shoe chat … have you ever looked at arche shoes? NOT cheap - I'd get on fleabay or in a sale - but incredibly comfortable even for dodgerama feet, of which I've over the years had various (that's left or right or both, rather than several different feet like an octopus) - they were first recommended to me by a podiatric surgeon. Some look not unlike those lovely hotter pink ones posted above …

Just had a look ... _pale_ boy! I don't think I want to look for those prices :eek: and I do love those self coloured/self patterned Schuh ones, I haven't bought fancy shoes for a long time, and frankly they've changed out of all recognition since I did :rotfl:

Ellidee's William James quote is FAB. I've written it on a bit of paper to put on my wall

:j:j:j

Does the strawberry clearing yield the odd strawberry? ...

It did in summer :rotfl: and I have seen the odd strawberry flower out there. But these are alpines, remember, and they're an inch apart at *most* - so by definition, they don't fruit. Sorry! That's why they're going, and its too much constant training to get them to fruit, for a very poor crop by comparison with other things.

earthgirl wrote: »

Oh dear, I read this as "very exciting wedding in the garden", Ooops!

That would be nice :j:j:j

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Sorry, I'm missing something here:o. What's the Tim Ferris thing, please?

Sorry! This is Tim Ferriss: http://fourhourworkweek.com/blog/ He wrote a book of the same name (tho works about 90 hours a week in reality, from what I can tell) and one of the hints in his book is to open the post every 3 or 4 days - with so much of what we do being online, there's nothing that can't wait that long, or very rarely. Spacing it out like that means you don't have to re-focus on it as often, and you get more done. And thats true, but I've let the spacing gaps get too wide.

I love this diary but it's so true what Hollyboll said. Miss a few days and there's soooo much to catch up on:rotfl:.

Oops Sorry! I have online energy and garden energy, but not much else - so this sort of *is* a lot of my social life, apart from days like today when I've been down to the south coast to watch the storm waves with my sister.

KC, I salute your determination and persistence:beer:. You may not always think you get much done but sometimes it makes me tired to read your tada lists and I don't even have any health and energy issues:o

Aw, thank you! I think of *you* as doing a lot, actually - out at car boot sales, out at all sorts of things ... amazing!

Love the shoe-talk, even with my aversion to buying any because of my awkward and ugly feet. I used to have some a bit like those Hotter ones when I was working and had a social life;). They weren't exactly the same but had that sort of bow on the front. They were from M&S of all places but their shoes always seemed to fit me without too much breaking-in:j. They were navy blue leather and received many compliments. I tried the colour-change thingy on the page with your Hotter shoes on( it doesn't take much to entertain me, maybe I should get out more;)) and absolutely fell in love with the gold ones, although they actually look silver onscreen;). Gold shoes with bows on....my dream:o

Brilliant :j:j:j we take our fun where we can get it, let's face it. I had fun today collecting cuttlebones to put on the garden, and I found part of a lobster skeleton too :eek: my sister said it hadn't been cooked (and she'd know, she used to go to that sort of restaurant) so I put that in my bag too - that's my amusement for today :rotfl:

Actually, we went past my previous house - I think the builder who bought it from me has sold it on, because the front patio looked dilapidated compared to what he did to it. Now ogling a previous house, *that* was fun!

Karmacat

Shockingly, I've started my Christmas cards! I woke really early, and by the time I was ready to do *something*, I still didn't want to switch the computer on, so I set to with the cards. List has been pruned ruthlessly this year so its not bad.

Only need to buy 3 more bits, 2 of which are stocking fillers, done all of it online and these will be too, so I'm happy. Today will be spent checking out those dresses, and sorting the parcels, which are rather mounting up If I'm feeling *incredibly virtuous, I may have another go at the Christmas cards, but virtue and me are never bedfellows for very long :rotfl: